This gallery contains 6 photos.
Worldwide tremendous compliments for essential workers prove how valuable their works are! Food business, including tea industry, is also essential business for our lives. In addition to the nutritional benefits of tea, such as vitamins, amino acids, minerals and polyphenols … Continue reading
This gallery contains 12 photos.
My day-by-day trials searching new aspects of tea as food ingredients or seasonings could let me find a wonderful way to use fresh first flush Sencha as a seasoning. That is “Cha-Miso”, which means Miso paste mixed with first flush Sencha. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 4 photos.
Today is Hachiju Hachiya, the 88th night from the Lichun and the day perfect to tea plucking. Yesterday, the Japanese national era changed to “Reiwa” from “Heisei”. Tea plucking and crude tea production has been carried out over the era. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 8 photos.
Shizuoka Japanese Tea Market has hold the initial trade of the first flush in 2019 on the last friday, 19th April. In the ceremony of initial trade, Mr. Uchida, the President & CEO of the market said that “the initial … Continue reading
This gallery contains 11 photos.
Now fantastic first flush are growing vividly on every region in the United Tea Estates of Shizuoka. On the Makinohara upland, tea shoots are waving with wind. On the “Golden Valley” Kanaya region in Makinohara upland, the valley is covered … Continue reading
This gallery contains 3 photos.
Shizuoka Tea Market will hold the ceremony of initial trade of first flush in 2019 on 19th April. This year has appropriate rainfall at the beginning of spring and most of tea shoots can avoid rapid increase of temperature, which … Continue reading
This gallery contains 8 photos.
First flush teas in 2018 have been already sold in various shops, including cafés and restaurants. I could met a sweet cup of first flush produced in Shizuoka at a hidden tea café “Sarasara” locating in Mitaka city in Tokyo. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Tea shoots of first flush grow vigorously under the spring warm climate, resulting in fantastic views of green leaves waves in the United Tea Estates of Shizuoka! The areas of early tea flush has already produced lots of crude tea of … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
In these 3 days, rain continuously falls onto soil, as if rain blesses the tea plantation. In Shizuoka prefecture, there are little rain for a month, resulting in a severe dry condition. Besides, the temperature gains higher for tea plants … Continue reading
This gallery contains 10 photos.
Tea production of 1st flush tea has reached its peak in Shizuoka! In each tea estate, scenes of tea plucking come to our eyes. And then, we come to find the color difference between tea plantations before and after plucking. … Continue reading